India: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released AI governance guidelines

On 4 November 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) released the India artificial intelligence (AI) governance guidelines. The guidelines set out seven guiding principles, trust is the foundation, people first, fairness and equity, innovation over restraint, accountability, understandable by design, and safety, resilience & sustainability. It proposes recommendations across six pillars, infrastructure, capacity building, policy and regulation, risk mitigation, accountability, and institutional structures. The guidelines introduce enablers including access to compute and datasets, integration with Digital Public Infrastructure, capacity development for officials, risk classification and incident reporting, voluntary compliance measures, and techno-legal approaches. The institutional architecture identifies the AI Governance Group (AIGG), Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC), and AI Safety Institute (AISI) for strategic oversight, development of standards, safety evaluations, and support for enforcement. The action plan includes short, medium, and long-term measures to operationalise the framework at the national level.